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What Gender Should Be Assigned To Computers Based On This Interesting Story? by brainbox2014(m): 9:30am On Feb 24, 2015
A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like chalk or pencil,she described, would have a gender association although in English these words were neutral.
Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, What gender is a computer? The teacher wasnt certain which it was, and so divided the class into 2 groups (male and female) and asked them to decide if a computer should be masculine or feminine.
Both groups were asked to give four reasons for their recommendation. The Men decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because: No one but their creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else, Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long- term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
The Women concluded that computers should be referred to in the masculine gender because: In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they ARE the problem. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you waited a little bit longer, you could have had a better model.

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Re: What Gender Should Be Assigned To Computers Based On This Interesting Story? by zyzxx(m): 9:38am On Feb 24, 2015
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Re: What Gender Should Be Assigned To Computers Based On This Interesting Story? by richol(m): 11:16am On Feb 24, 2015
nice one...the answer is french should be neutral
Re: What Gender Should Be Assigned To Computers Based On This Interesting Story? by dazekid(m): 4:07pm On Feb 24, 2015
brainbox2014:
A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like chalk or pencil,she described, would have a gender association although in English these words were neutral.
Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, What gender is a computer? The teacher wasnt certain which it was, and so divided the class into 2 groups (male and female) and asked them to decide if a computer should be masculine or feminine.
Both groups were asked to give four reasons for their recommendation. The Men decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because: No one but their creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else, Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long- term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
The Women concluded that computers should be referred to in the masculine gender because: In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they ARE the problem. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you waited a little bit longer, you could have had a better model.

WHAT'S YOUR OWN ANSWER & REASON?

Damn, very very true
Re: What Gender Should Be Assigned To Computers Based On This Interesting Story? by franugo(m): 6:21am On Feb 25, 2015
Hehehe what funny logiccheesy D post gat me smiling like madidigrin

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